CVE-2022-50233 – Linux Kernel Bluetooth eir strlen Vulnerability

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CVE-2022-50233 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 09, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}

    Both dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so
    this instead use strnlen and then attempt to determine if the resulting
    string needs to be truncated or not.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd7b8cdde098cf9f7c8de409b5b7bbb98f97be80
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